Rationale

Training skills development offers an organisation’s workforce the opportunity to cultivate their skills, enhance their knowledge and therefore, improve their performance and productivity in their current positions or their future career development. The aim of this course is to provide students the means to create a training and development plan as future HR practitioner and also highlight the co-dependence between the terms: productivity, motivation and training and indicate how such training developments add value to the employees’ community. Consequently, the Human Resource department, considering both the current needs of the organisation and the employee’s desire for self-improvement, takes the role of the learning facilitator, formulating continuous training plans. In this way, it invests on its people, orient and motivate them through their career paths, while at the same time it improves the company’s productivity and image. The course provides an introduction to training and development management, training process, techniques and employee orientation, which constitute indispensable procedures of the HR services.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students will be expected to:

(i)    Explain the purpose and process of employee training and development.
(ii)   Apply the means for staff training and employee orientation.
(iii)  Create regular staff training plans and explain how to use training techniques.
(iv)  Identify the organisations’ needs for skills and talent in order to adjust plans accordingly.
(v)   Organise training events, sessions and skills improvement projects.
(vi)  Keep daily communication with the employees and ask for their professional needs, desires and feedback.
(vii) List the different evaluation processes.
(viii) Attract and hold on talented employees. 
(ix)  Promote a mindset of change and adaptability to the market trends.